Improvement in plncil-hqldlrs



f steel SELF AND GEORGE F. BOLLES, 0F SAME PLACE.

Letters Patent No. 108.573, dated October 25, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN PENCiJ-"HOLDERS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and mflzing part of the am Be it known that I, (limnnnsn. Enron, oi Minneapolis, in the county of Henncpin and State of Minnesota, have invented certain Improvements in Penil-Fnstene;s, of which the following is 'a. specification, reference being made to the accompanying drawing and letters of reference marked thereon, making a. part of this specification.

My invention relates to the'constrnetion of n. sliding pencil-holder, which shall be applicable to slateframes, book-covers, &o., and to the mode of attneln. ing the same, sons to provide aconvenient and secure plnceoi' deposit for the pencil when not-in use.

1) represents a section of a slate-frame, ledger-cover, or the edge of anything towiiich the slide may be applicnhle and in combination with which it would be useful as n. PEDulLfG-SBBHE'I.

It represents the. slide, made of metal, shaped in the manner shown, of size suitable to receives pencil, and having two long slots out, one in each side of the slide,

which slots run parallel with each other, but ohl iqnely upon the slide.

Thisslide is fitted onto'fi'ame b so as to. slip readi-' then slipped down again until the inserted pencil is wedged first to the frame, as shown in the drswing.

I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent-- r The slide a, shaped in the manner shown, and having parallel slots running obliquely in the opposite sides, and the combination of such slide with the'edge of a slate frame, or any substance to which it may be -applicable as a, PBllQll-fiLSlZBBGl', all substantially as and for the purpose described.

CHARLES A. EATON.

-Witnesses:

Geo. H. Ross,

H. 0. GALE. 

